AN OPEN LETTER TO MUSIC AND CULTURE LOVERS OF AUSTRALIA DON’T LET THE BEREJIKLIAN GOVERNMENT KILL LIVE MUSIC Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 6pm – 8pm Thursday February 21st Hyde Park Sydney Dear music lovers, Your music is under attack. Overbearing regulation, exorbitant police bills, a lack of respect for NSW businesses, and very little recognition of the significant positive impacts of music on our communities is forcing music out of NSW. The State Government have declared a war on music and cul- ture in NSW, proclaiming that music, and music festivals are high risk activities. Music is being killed off by Premier Berejiklian and the LNP. Festivals are being forced to cancel or move interstate. The NSW State Government is vilifying live music with knee-jerk regulation (more details here). Instead of consulting with festival experts, the NSW Government imposed punitive regulation that specifically targets music festivals, and music fans. Festivals are being used as a scapegoat for years of failed drug and alcohol policy. We want our music culture to be safe and inclusive. Onerous and ill-considered regulation will not save lives. And the State Government is decimating our music culture in the process. We demand that the State Government: • Stops killing live music in NSW • Forms a music regulation roundtable to review all regulation impacting live music • Immediately undertakes a Regulatory Impact Statement for any regulation impact- ing music festivals • Develops an industry standard with full transparency for user-pays policing and medical services • Works with the music industry to develop robust, effective and achievable safety protocols for festivals Don’t let the Premier Berejiklian and the State Government take music away from you. You deserve better. NSW deserves better. Please see the list of signatories and supporters below… WHAT CAN YOU DO? RALLY Come to the Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 6pm – 8pm Thursday Feb 21st, Hyde Park Syd- ney. Register here: Don’t Kill Live Music Rally 2019 In an ironic twist, February 23rd will be the nine-year anniversary of the SLAM rally in Mel- bourne. PETITION Sign this petition to demand the Berejiklian government stop killing live music HERE. Don’t let Gladys kill live music. Don’t sit back and watch them ruin NSW. WE ARE HERE. WE ARE LOUD. WE ARE ANGRY. AND WE VOTE! For Updates Like and Follow: #dontkilllivemusic dontkilllivemusic.org www.facebook.com/Dont-Kill-Live-Music-Australia www.instagram.com/dklmaustralia Signatories ¿Club D'érange? Babe Rave Sydney Byron Bay Blues Fest A.D.K.O.B Babylon Festival Call & Response Ability Fest Bakehouse Studios Cash Savage And The Ableton Live School Bare Essentials Last Drinks Adi Toohey Bare Necessities Music Cattleyard Promotions Alien (promoter) Bassic Records CC:Disco! 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